The Role of Social Networks of the Long-Term Unemployed: Organizational Membership and Social Support in Everyday Life Increase Job Chances

Abstract

"We investigate the effect of several characteristics of long-term unemployed’s social networks on subsequent job take-up. Our main findings are that active memberships in different types of organizations (e.g. clubs, churches, unions) and the social support in everyday life increase the unemployed’s job chances." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Krug, G., Trappmann, M. & Wolf, C. (2020): Rolle des sozialen Netzwerkes von Langzeitarbeitslosen: Mitgliedschaften in Vereinen und Hilfe bei Alltagsproblemen können Jobchancen erhöhen. (IAB-Kurzbericht 22/2020), Nürnberg, 8 p.